The former general secretary of JxCat Jordi Sànchez said this Saturday that "the process has definitely closed", after Junts' decision to break the coalition government with ERC and move to the opposition. In statements to Catalunya Ràdio, Sànchez, who campaigned actively to stay in the Executive that he himself agreed with Pere Aragonès, has recognized that, with the "enormously transcendental" decision adopted by JxCat, "a stage is closing".
"Now we can say that the procés has definitely come to an end", said Sànchez, who recalled that since 2012 Catalan politics had been characterized by the "permanent search for an agreement between the two major independence parties".
The decision adopted by a majority of JxCat to leave the Government leads to "a situation unknown in recent years" and it remains to be seen, he stressed, how it will be possible, together, "to build unity with this new scenario". With ERC in the Government and JxCat in the opposition, he has warned, this "strategic unity" will be "at least a little more difficult" to achieve.
Sànchez, who has meant in recent weeks in defense of the yes to continue in the Government in the internal consultation called by JxCat, has stressed that he is not considering leaving the party, although he has recognized that the leadership of Laura Borràs is "very clearly reinforced ".
For his part, the former Catalan president, Quim Torra, has hinted that the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, should call elections now. "The Danish Prime Minister, with her country at 9% inflation and suffering like all of Europe from the consequences of the war in Ukraine, calls elections as a result of the breakup of the coalition government. When you run out of political path, the best solution is give citizens a voice," he said on Twitter.
